Böthchen Castle
| Böthchen Castle | ||
|---|---|---|
| Alternative name (s): | Bödichen, Bodemich | |
| Creation time : | 12th Century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | No | |
| Place: | Dippoldiswalde | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 54 '16.1 " N , 13 ° 39' 33.7" E | |
|
||
The castle Böthchen (also Bödichen , Bode me ) is a small Outbound medieval castle in Dippoldiswalde in District Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains in Saxony . The name is also mentioned in connection with a Vorwerk .
location
The castle complex was north-west of the Dippoldiswald town center, north of the Böthchen forest , south of the Paulsdorf district . Near the Borthenberg. The exact location cannot be located.
history
It is not known when the castle was built. Its construction is probably related to the silver mining in Dippoldiswalde, which dates back to 1158 or 1170. It may have served as the outer bailey of the Dippoldiswalde fortress. In 1294 two castles, "duo castra Dippoldiswalt" from 1344 are mentioned in a document, a particularly small castle. It was already around 1370 by Margrave Friedrich III. torn down and razed by the citizens of Dippoldiswald by the 15th century . More recent research, however, doubts the existence of the castle, which is mentioned several times in regional literature, and traces the documentary mention back to a punctuation error in the relevant document edition.
In 1465, a Vorwerk Bodenichen (Bodemich) is mentioned for the first time in this area, which is associated with the fortifications. The Bodemich Vorwerk is mentioned again in 1516, but in 1564 it was already referred to as a "desolate Vorwerk". Instead of the castle and the Vorwerk there is now an arable land and not the Böthchen as mentioned in the literature earlier. Nothing has survived from the former castle complex, but some ceramic shards could be recovered near the television converter on the Borthenberg.
legend
According to legend, treasure is said to be buried near the palace square. A brewing pan with gold is said to lie in the ground where the castle complex once stood. Several men once tried to dig up the treasure at midnight. However, since one of the groups did not keep the law of silence during the excavation, the treasure fell forever. The chronicler Konrad Knebel mentions that the treasure hunt became obsolete due to the construction of today's road from Paulsdorf to Dippoldiswalde (dam road K9010).
literature
- Erhard Unger: Our home. Colorful pictures from the Dippser Land. Grafische Werkstätten Dippoldiswalde 1997, p. 48 f.
- The treasure in Bödichen near Dippoldiswalde , in: Arthur Klengel: Book of legends of the eastern Ore Mountains . Altis-Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3910195318 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Richard Steche : Dippoldiswalde , in: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony, 2nd issue, Amtshauptmannschaft Dippoldiswalde, Meinhold & Söhne, Dresden 1883, p. 11. Online
- ^ Yves Hoffmann: The story of Dippoldiswalde up to the end of the first mining period around 1400 , in: Work and research reports on the Saxon soil monument preservation, Volume 51/52, State Office for Archeology, Dresden 2011, p. 404.
- ^ Konrad Knebel: History of the city of Dippoldiswalde up to 1918 , Dippoldiswalde 1920.
Web links
- Bodemich in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony